No need for Lions to gamble in this year's NFL draft

Summary of 2 articles · Updated May 5, 2014

It might not, though, be the player the Lions will take. I dont mind a good healthy gamble, but this would be needlessly extravagant. Would the Lions offense be the talk of the draft? Yep. Mayhew and Jim Caldwell are clear about their win-now mentality, b… (more)ut with all the Lions questions on defense, would a blockbuster deal for Watkins be a win now approach or a score now approach? Defensive tackles Andre Fluellen ; Martin; Irvin; Jimmy Saddler-McQueen : Medium Any : Jadeveon Clowney, DE, South Carolina; Larry Webster , DE, Bloomsburg; Denico Autry , DE, Mississippi State .

Lions NFL draft preview: Defensive line

The NFL draft is less than a week away, which means soon enough the Detroit Lions will have to reveal whether all of their Sammy Watkins attention and visits from Jadeveon Clowney and Khalil Mack had substance or were designed to throw everyone off. But…